left field prog (roughly)
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:51 pm
just trying to work out the best way of structuring this,and it posibly isn't all going to fall under the rubric of prog.
In the wake of my having spent the last week listening to Matching Mole's Little Red Record I'm looking for other music somewhat similar in its uniqueness.
I was thinking last week that
"Think this might be the kind of weird prog that I was hoping I'd discover after reading in fanzines years ago about left field punk/post-punk artists being into the stuff, rather than the more popular Yes/Genesis."
& what I'm really looking for is music probably mainly from this time period, early 70s that is as immediate while remaining alien sounding.
So whereas prog is negatively viewed as stereotypically about chops and pomp i'm looking for music that is exploratory and more focused on that than trying to show off how many chords the player knows. Could be that a number of relatively unused chords might crop up in the player's playing but not as primary focus.
I'm thinking that this period in the early 70s, and late 60s was a time when people had been triggered to investigate new directions to take primarily electric rock instrument based music in and also getting the chance to be recorded and released or at least have the recordings preserved for archive release.
So can you suggest recordings of this type. I'm really not looking for well known groups like Yes or Genesis & they probably fall outside of this remit anyway, even if i do have a soft spot for Nursery Crime. I don't want to exclude well known names though since I think both VDGG and King Crimson have recorded material that would fit.
In the wake of my having spent the last week listening to Matching Mole's Little Red Record I'm looking for other music somewhat similar in its uniqueness.
I was thinking last week that
"Think this might be the kind of weird prog that I was hoping I'd discover after reading in fanzines years ago about left field punk/post-punk artists being into the stuff, rather than the more popular Yes/Genesis."
& what I'm really looking for is music probably mainly from this time period, early 70s that is as immediate while remaining alien sounding.
So whereas prog is negatively viewed as stereotypically about chops and pomp i'm looking for music that is exploratory and more focused on that than trying to show off how many chords the player knows. Could be that a number of relatively unused chords might crop up in the player's playing but not as primary focus.
I'm thinking that this period in the early 70s, and late 60s was a time when people had been triggered to investigate new directions to take primarily electric rock instrument based music in and also getting the chance to be recorded and released or at least have the recordings preserved for archive release.
So can you suggest recordings of this type. I'm really not looking for well known groups like Yes or Genesis & they probably fall outside of this remit anyway, even if i do have a soft spot for Nursery Crime. I don't want to exclude well known names though since I think both VDGG and King Crimson have recorded material that would fit.